(U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS)
OFFICIAL UNEMPLOYMENT: 7.2% [Analysis]
A year earlier, the number of unemployed persons was 7.5
million, and the jobless rate was 4.9 percent. [BLS]
White 6.6%
African American 11.9%
Hispanic 9.2%
Asian** 5.1%
Men 20 years and over 7.2%
Women 20 years and over 5.9%
Teen-agers (16-19 years) 20.8%
Black teens 33.7%
Officially unemployed 11.1 million
HIDDEN UNEMPLOYMENT
Working part-time because can't find a full-time job: 8.0 million
People who want jobs but are not looking so are not counted in official statistics (of which about 1.9 million** searched for work during the prior 12 months and were available for work during the reference week.) 5.5 million
Total: 24.6 million (15.4% of the labor force)
Source: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
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